![]() ![]() She showed how people can overcome life's obstacles and begin to live again. ~2013 Finalist National Readers' Choice Awards-Best First book/Best Novel with Romantic Elements ~2013 Winner Chatelaine Award for Romantic Fiction "This writer is exceptional, and the way you get to know all her characters so completely is outstanding. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. While CJ helps Brenda uncover the truth about her husband, she finds the path to forgiveness isn't always on the map. ![]() ![]() But as she grows closer to CJ, Brenda learns she wasn't the only one with secrets-Jack had secrets of his own, unsavory ones that may have led to his death. The release of Brenda's second book forces her into an unexpected assignment with arrogant celebrity author CJ Morrison, whose irritating and edgy exterior hides the torment of his own mistakes. Did Jack learn of her infidelity? Was she the cause of his death? But her guilt over her affair with Jack's best friend prevents her from moving on. Until Brenda McAllister's husband committed suicide, she appeared to have the ideal life: a thriving psychology practice, success as a self-help author, and a model family. ![]() ★★★★★ 2013 Category Winner ~The Chatelaine Awards for Romantic Fiction★★★★★ Winner Dixie Kane Memorial ContestĬan forgiveness survive lies and unspoken truths? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a result, when I found out that Mammay was following it up this year with Spaceside, I knew that I would have to read it, and featured it in both a Waiting on Wednesday post and my Top Ten Most Anticipated July-December 2019 Releases list. Planetside was easily one of the best books I read in 2018, and I still cannot get past that epic finale to the story. Mammay’s first book was a spectacular story that blended a science fiction story about an advanced human military occupying an alien planet with an intriguing thriller around a missing soldier. I mentioned several times already on my blog how much I loved Planetside last year. Now Mammay attempts to follow up this amazing first novel with a second book in his Planetside series, Spaceside. Last year, Michael Mammay debuted an absolutely incredible book, Planetside, the outstanding science fiction thriller that absolutely blew me (and the planet of Cappa) away with its inventiveness, addictive story and explosive conclusion. Publisher: Harper Voyager (Ebook – 27 August 2019) ![]() ![]() ![]() At 19, she takes a job at a draper’s shop, strings her lovelorn boss along for raises while putting him off from her bed. When she loses her virginity (at 16 or 17), she finds self-sex more satisfying and heavenly than intercourse, although she forces her deflowerer to return and make love to her several more times. The novel’s Maria learns of sex through masturbation, first as a child and later as an adolescent. Coelho says his story was born when a prostitute named Maria (or Sonia) approached him and asked if he knew what it was like to live without love. Eleven Minutes, while reminding us that sex is sacred, is more persuasively written, perhaps because it feels taken from a real life. Here, he returns to a theme first picked up in By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1996), a tale in which sex and God are whipped into a tasty mayonnaise. ![]() The Brazilian Coelho, whose inspirational fables have sold about 50 million copies in 150 countries in 57 languages, at times persuades reviewers with his talent but often is seen as gucky and spiritually challenged. ![]() ![]() Therefore, the present review focuses on the properties and functional significance of the alveolar fluid. These transport mechanisms have been reviewed extensively. The volume and composition of the alveolar fluid is regulated by transepithelial ion transport mechanisms expressed in alveolar epithelial cells. Besides these conserved morphological elements, another common feature of vertebrate lungs is that they contain a certain amount of fluid that covers the alveolar epithelium. It is formed by three different plies, which are represented by the alveolar epithelium, the basal lamina, and the endothelial layer. The morphology of the air-blood barrier is highly conserved within air-breathing vertebrates. ![]() The ability to breathe air represents a fundamental step in vertebrate evolution that was accompanied by several anatomical and physiological adaptations. ![]() ![]() Next to making children happy, she likes nothing better than helping others - and that includes doing a bit of matchmaking! If she can figure out how to afford it.įortunately, it's Mrs. Holly's widowed brother is in the army and won't be home for Christmas, but at least she can get Gabe the toy robot from Finley's, the one gift he desperately wants. She wants to give her eight-year-old nephew, Gabe, the holiday he deserves. Because they need a Christmas miracle to keep the business afloat. Now Christmas means just one thing to him - and to his father. Jake Finley, the owners son.įor Jake, holiday memories of brightly wrapped gifts, decorated trees and family were destroyed in a Christmas Eve tragedy years before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miracle!) is working in the toy department at Finley's, the last family-owned department store in New York City. This Christmas, Emily Merkle (call her Mrs. (Received for review from Nancy Berland PR) ![]() ![]() It’s been years since he’s been back there or seen his parents, who are ultra conservative and don’t approve of his ‘lifestyle’. The book opens as Roderick Waites pulls up outside his parents’ home in the small town of Colebury in Vermont. Roommate is the starting point – and I’ll confess now that I haven’t read any of the other books, so I’ll likely have missed any of the recurring characters but the good news is that I didn’t have any problems following the story, so you can jump in here, as I did, and not feel as though you’ve missed anything important! The series is set among the apple orchards and breweries of Vermont, and will feature some of the characters who’ve appeared in the True North books already, and others who are completely new, and it’s a big venture, comprised of four different mini-series. ![]() Sarina Bowen’s The Understatement of the Year and the co-authored (with Elle Kennedy) Him/Us are some of my favourite m/m stories and go-to re-listens, so when I saw that Teddy Hamilton was on board for Roommate, the first book in a new series that takes place in the world of her True North novels, I was more than eager to listen to it. ![]() Narrated by Teddy Hamilton and Stephen Dexter ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, her name is synonymous with using the “safe, sterile laboratory” of the future and fictional world in order to examine the nature of reality, the issues at the heart of the human condition, and the possibilities and dangers that humanity faces as it expands, changes, and seeks to spread its own influence. She was responsible for revolutionizing the genre by incorporating literary, lyrical prose, Taoist influences, and themes of feminism, anarchism, and environmentalism into her many works. Nevertheless, her enduring influence on the genre inspired writers like David Mitchell ( Cloud Atlas), Neil Gaiman ( American Gods, The Sandman), Kelly Link ( Magic for Beginners), and Jeff VanderMeer ( Annihilation). ![]() Although she was known throughout her life as “America’s greatest living science fiction writer,” she balked at being put in a box as a sci-fi writer and preferred to be known simply as a novelist. ![]() ![]() After studying at Radcliffe College (present-day Harvard University) and Columbia University, she worked as a secretary and a French teacher and eventually as a full-time writer of science fiction. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, to anthropologist parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are also two animated and two live-action films about Hellboy- the latter directed by Guillermo Del Toro and starring Ron Perlman. There are, at the moment, 13 Hellboy graphic novel collections and several spin-off titles. Hellboy might have been Mike's first creation but he wasn’t his last by a long shot- there’s Abe Sapien, Lobster Johnson, Sir Edward Grey, and Lord Baltimore- to name only a few. And who better to help than Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy- that very large demonic creature who might look like a devil but who fights on the side of good and has a wicked sense of humor. Just in time for Halloween- we’re taking a look at what it takes to create a monster. ![]() Jo Reed: That's comic book author and artist Mike Mignola and this is Art Works, the weekly podcast produced at the National Endowment for the Arts. But I love that character, he's always fun for me to draw. Mike Mignola: Before I did Hellboy, I had never drawn any one character for more than a year. Music Credits: Original music by Philip Brunelle “Universe in Hands,” written and performed by Kai Engel ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a quick read and incredibly interesting, with the text in a question-and-answer format. This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.Ī truly informative book on the reality of war and its effects on people. What will happen to my body after I die?.What are the long-term consequences of combat stress?. ![]() ![]() What does it feel like to kill someone?.What could happen to me in a nuclear attack?.What is the most painful way to get wounded?.What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war?.Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical - and fascinating - lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. ![]() ![]() ![]() If they can find the witch he insulted and who then frogged him, maybe they’ll learn what went wrong since witches are bound to tell their victims the terms of any curse. Well, now what are they supposed to do? Eadric has an idea. Only instead of turning him back into the prince he claims to be, Emma becomes a frog as well. ![]() She’d rather kiss a frog then Jorge and in a fit of pique, she does. That is until her mother decides to arrange Emma’s marriage to ghastly Prince Jorge. Prince Eadric can’t prove to Emma that he truly is a prince so she’s reluctant to give him the kiss he asks for. It’s here that she finds a talking frog who claims that he’s a prince. Since she rarely lives up to her mother’s expectations, this is often. Princess Emeralda loves to escape to the swamp that borders the castle where she lives. ![]() Alas, the book itself didn’t live up to my hopes. The cover, and that of the many sequels, certainly fits the cute profile. I love fairy tales retold from a modern perspective, given slight twists or are just cute. Jayne Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C- Reviews childrens-books / Fairy-Tales 14 CommentsĪs I wandered through my local bookstore, the title of this book caught my eye. DecemREVIEW: The Frog Princess (Book One of Tales of the Frog Princess) by E.D. ![]() |